Rob Moran

Hotels chain Vibe Hotels have cancelled bookings for the Australian seminar tour by notorious pick-up artist Jeff 'Jeffy' Allen following pressure from local activist groups.

Allen - a colleague of Julien Blanc, who had his visa revoked in the middle of a similar tour in 2014 - and his group Real Social Dynamics (RSD) have been the focus of an online campaign looking to block his classes, which activists say "promotes sexism and violence against women" and teach men how to "seduce" women through harassment and intimidation

Following pressure from online commenters questioning the hotel chain's motivation in allowing events that "promote physical and emotional violence against women" to be held in its rooms, Vibe yesterday tweeted that they'd looked into the situation and discovered that Allen and RSD had booked the events under a pseudonym, and they'd been subsequently cancelled.

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@MelTankardReist TFE Hotels has learnt RSD booked events at Vibe Hotels under another name & has cancelled any further events at all hotels

"We found out they were booking under a different name and we ordered the hotel to cancel their booking and sent an announcement to hotel managers to look out for any of these bookings and cancel them," a spokesperson for TFE, the hotel chain that runs Vibe, told BuzzFeed News.